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...like cattle prods and special truncheons that leave no marks. Because of the adverse publicity raised by Senator Henry M. Jackson about the desirability of U.S. sales of such repressive equipment to the Kremlin, only two American firms showed up at the fair; their wares ranged from a $35 fingerprint set to a $28,865 mobile crime lab. What Krimtekhnika-74 showed, beyond the inventiveness of the law-and-order industry, is that the Russians are having a serious crime problem...
...Environmental Protection Agency might be called on to inspect candidates' home furnaces. Or the FBI would have to run a fingerprint check. The Pentagon would then attest to the validity of the candidate's Good Conduct Medal. All of this public reassurance, of course, to be financed by the public...
Once while sitting as a trial judge, Chief Justice Warren Burger listened patiently as a young prosecutor presented nearly an hour of expert testimony on fingerprint evidence. Burger naturally assumed that the case would hinge on a disputed fingerprint. To his consternation, he eventually discovered that the fingerprint was not in question at all; the defense accepted it. Not for the first or last time, Burger had been victimized by a familiar courtroom figure: the inept trial attorney...
...called police, and a three-man squad found two more taped locks-as well as a jimmied door leading into the shadowy offices of the Democratic National Committee on the sixth floor. Just outside Chairman Larry O'Brien's inner sanctum, they flushed five men wearing fingerprint-concealing surgical gloves and laden with a James Bondian assortment of cameras, tools, intricate electronic bugging gear and $6,500 in crisp, new bills, most of which were serially numbered...
...scanners can perform more subtle detective work, since every object, living or inanimate, emits or reflects the various wave lengths of infra-red light with a different intensity. Chlorophyll, for instance, a key chemical involved in the production of oxygen by green plants, has a very distinctive infra-red "fingerprint." Thus, by the color variations in photos, future ERTS satellites could quickly detect any large-and possibly dangerous -change in the chlorophyll content of ocean plankton, a principal source of the world's oxygen supply. By similar "fingerprinting," ERTS and its successors could warn of changes in the health...